HMS By the Numbers

• Total faculty: 11,998
• Tenured and tenure-track faculty on the HMS campus in 11 preclinical departments: 186
• Voting faculty on campus and at affiliates: 6,307
• Full-time faculty on campus and at affiliates: 9,954
• Nobel Prizes (cumulative) in Medicine or Physiology, Peace: 10 prizes, 16 recipients
• National Academy of Medicine members (current): 160
• National Academy of Sciences members (current): 83
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (current): 37
  • Investigators: 32
  • Faculty Scholars: 4
  • Professor: 1
• Total MD students: 701
• Total PhD students: 894 (893 HMS, 1 HSDM)
• MD-PhD students: 194: basic sciences 168, social sciences 26 (total included in MD and PhD counts)
• Total DMD students: 144
• Total master's students: 360 (309 HMS, 51 HSDM)
• Total DMSc students: 38
• Trainees: (residents and postdoctoral fellows): 9,036

Students

Entering MD students, 2020

• MD (includes 14 MD–PhD students): 168
• Applicants: 6,708
• Admitted: 234 (3.53%)
• Men: 67 (40%)
• Women: 101 (60%)
• Underrepresented in medicine (African American, Native American, Hispanic, Mexican American): 36 (21%)
• Asian: 64 (38%)

Additional entering students, 2020

• PhD: 161 (161 HMS)
• DMD: 35
• Master's: 212 (196 HMS, 16 HSDM)
• DMSc: 9
• Additional joint-degree programs: MD-MAD, MD-MMSc, MD-MBA, MD-MPH, MD-MPP
• Medical school living alumni: 10,627 (MD and master's)

As of September 2020

MD Financial Aid (Fiscal Year 2020)

• Average scholarship: $54,129
• Students receiving financial aid (excluding MD–PhD students): 76%
• (2019-20) Students graduating with loans: 110
• (2019-20) Average loan debt at graduation: $99,376
• Range of debt (Class of 2020): $2,394–$282,144

Tuition and Fees (2019–2020)

• Tuition: $63,400
• Fees: $4,978

Tuition and Fees (2020–2021)

• Tuition: $64,984
• Fees: $5,234

As of June 2020